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[Back to all](https://vcreativeinc.com/insights) # What is a vPPO, and how does it work? Ask a production director what a [vPPO](https://vcreativeinc.com/products/vppo) is and you will get a shorter answer than any product page will give you. It is the PO. The production order. The thing that says a spot has to exist, who it is for, when it airs, and who has to touch it before it does. vPPO is vCreative's system for those orders. Here is what one actually holds, how it moves through a station, and why people who have used it since 2010 talk about it the way they do. ## What is actually on a PO Client. Flight dates. Length. The copy or the script. Voice and production notes. Due date. And a named person responsible at each step. Every one of those is something a producer needs before work can start. Miss one and the order bounces back, and the clock does not stop while it does. In a station running on email, all of it is scattered across a request, a few replies, and somebody's memory. ## Sales to traffic to talent That is the path, and every arrow in it is a place where work can sit. Ed Thompson, Creative Services Director at NRG Media's Omaha radio group, puts it plainly. He keeps track of every single PO and knows exactly where it is in the production process, from Sales Associate to Traffic to Talent. His summary of what changed: *"We have accountability. We have more creativity. And we have increased productivity."* Before that, his version of a bad night was a handful of orders slipped into his inbox after the deadline while dinner reservations quietly expired. Most production directors have their own version of that story. ## The blog is where the arguing stops Every order carries its own comment thread. At vCreative it is called the blog, and it is where the account executive, the producer and traffic talk about that specific spot, attached to that specific order. It sounds small. It is not. Matt Linsin describes the effect as eliminating the back and forth arguments about what went wrong or where things stand. The history sits next to the work instead of scattered across three inboxes, which is also why the audit trail is the feature people name when something has gone sideways and they need to find out where. ## The archive turns out to be a sales tool This is the part nobody expects when they buy a production system. Every spot you have ever run stays searchable. Jill Masek, Director of Sales at Broadcast House Media, uses it in front of clients: instead of asking an advertiser what they want to run, her team pulls what that client ran this time last year, or four years ago, and makes suggestions from it. She says they can look it up in seconds. Matt Barnard at Portland Radio Group does the same thing from the other direction. A client asks for an ad from a few years back without knowing when it aired, and he finds it, downloads it, assembles the full run history and emails the lot back within minutes. His words: it makes him a resource to his clients rather than a vendor. Neither of those is a production benefit. They are revenue benefits, and they fall out of a system that was simply keeping good records. ## Voice Pool, and not having to beg for reads The other feature people volunteer without being asked is the Voice Pool. You request voice talent from across the whole company rather than whoever happens to be in the building, which is how a small market gets access to a big roster. Kendra Raines at Townsquare Twin Falls has been using it since 2010 and calls the system a production director's best friend. Marc Schindler at Saga Charlottesville has been on it since 2012. That kind of tenure is unusual for workflow software and it is worth paying attention to. ## See a PO move through your own station The fastest way to understand any of this is to watch one of your own orders go through it. Book a vCreative demo and bring a real spot with you. We will run it from request to air and you can decide whether it beats what you do now. ## Frequently asked questions **What is a vPPO?** It is vCreative's production order system. A PO holds everything a spot needs, from client and flight dates to copy, production notes and approvals, and it carries that spot from the first request through to clearing for air. **How is a PO different from a task in a project tool?** A task records that work exists. A PO models the work: defined stages, a named owner at each step, the full brief, its own comment thread and a history you can audit. That structure is what stops orders bouncing back or stalling between departments. **Who touches a PO at a station?** Sales raises it, traffic routes it, talent produces it, and it clears for the log. Management reads the same record to see what is at risk this week without asking three people. Want to share this article? 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